Water is an essential input for agriculture. With the increasing demand of this resource it has become essential to economize on water, particularly in activities related to agriculture. Scientific irrigation scheduling ...

Snow and glacial melt contribute significant proportions of spring season flow in the Himalayan rivers. Precipitation during the winter months is 40 to 50 percent of annual precipitation in the Western Himalayas. Monitoring ...

With the availability of cheap reliable micro-electronic devices, such as microprocessors, solid state devices, sensors based on new technologies and communication systems, measuring instruments have become much more ...

Narmada Control Authority, Indore, is going to instal a network for water management system in the Narmada Basin comprising of 96 hydrometeorological sites evenly spread in the basin. The chapter gives details about ...

Streamflow is a very important phase of the hydrological cycle as far as its utilisation by mankind is concerned. At the same time this phase also creates disastrous situations for the surrounding areas. For better design, ...

Coastal zones of our country have become the most densely populated areas due to the availability of flat land, good soils, transportation facilities and high productivity. Coastal areas undergo severe and complex ...

To keep pace with the advancement of hydrologic investigations and research with more and more computer applications in water resources engineering leading to formulation of a large number of watershed models specially ...